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REGISTERING-GATE:

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UNITED STATES PATENT OFFICE.

JAMES T. ALDRICH, OF NORWICH, (IONNEGTIGUT.

IMPROVEMENT IN REGISTERING-GATES.

Specification forming part of Letters Patent N 0. 169,94 1, datedNovember 16, 1875; application filed July 1, 1875.

To all whom it may concern:

Be it known that I, JAMES T. ALDRICH, of the city of Norwich and StateofUonnecticut, have invented certain Improvements in RecordingPassenger-Registering Gate, of which the following is a specification:

My invention consists, first, in a peculiar construction of a gate orspindle placed at an entrance where it is desirable to register theingress or egress of passengers, whereby, on a person entering the gate,his weight or pressure unlocks the spindle, which allows the person topass through, and by swinging the gate to his right it records hisingress, and on passing through from the opposite side, and swinging thegate to the left, it records his egress,'or vice versa; but on leavingthe gate it looks again, and remains so for the next person. I thereforedenominate my invention an alternate acting and locking registering gateor spindle.

My invention consists, second, in a trap or treading pieces placed at anentrance, so that, on a person entering, his weight or pressuredepresses them, thereby unlocking the gate or spindle, and allowing theperson to register.

My invention consists, third, in a peculiar construction of circularplates attached to the spindle, they having stopnotches for dogs orpawls; also are divided into segments, with studs or pins, so to stop orlock the gate at any position desired, whereby not allowing a passengerto make but one register at a time.

My invention consists, fourth, in a registering-cam placed on theperiphery of the circular plates, whereby, on swinging the gate to theright, the cam strikes the registering mechanism, which denotes ingress,and by swinging the gate to the left it denotes egress.

Figure 1 represents a front or side elevation of an entrance through theline .70 .r, Fig. 2, with my device as partly operated. Fig. 2 is a planview of an entrance with the trap cut away, showing the recording andother meeh anism with the gate as part operated. Fig. 3 is a back orside elevation with the device as part operated. Fig. 4 is an end orside view of the recording and other mechanism through the line 3 y,Fig. 2.

In these drawings, a. represents the wood or frame work; A, the gate; B,the spindle; O, the circular plates, Figs. 3 and 4:; D D, thetreading-pieces, Figs. 1 and 3; E E, the dogs or pawls, Figs. 2 and 3; FF, the inclines attached to the treading-pieces, Figs. 1 andii;GG,inclin'es on the sliding piece, Figs. 1 and 2; H H, the stop or looklevers; l l, the levers that keep the sliding piece d central, Fig. 1;J, the shaft that the lock-levers. swing on, Fig. 2; K, the rock-shaftthat the locking punch-lever is attached to, Figs. 2 and 4; L, theregistering rock-lever, with punches or prickers attached,

Figs. 2 and 4; M, the plate or stanchion that holds the rocking punchand tilt levers, Figs. 2 and 4; h, the registering-cams on circularplate, Figs. 2, 3, and 1; T, the tilt-lever that works the rockingpunch-lever L, Figs. 2 and 4; d, the sliding piece that holds inclinecams G G, Fig. l, and which throws the rocking crotched lever S, Fig. 1,to one side, and thereby liftsthe dogs and holds them up while a personis passing through the gate, Fig. 1. ()n the ingress of a passenger hisweight or press are depresses the trap D, which causes incline F to acton incline G, thereby drawing the sliding piece cl toward the person,and throws the crotchedlever S, Fig. 1, to one side, thereby raising thedog E out of the stopnotches in circular plate (3, Fig. 3. Atthe sametime the stop-lever H falls from stud 0, upper plate, Fig. 3, therebyunlocking spindle B, so as to allow the passenger to swing the gate partway, or to swing it until the stud 0, bottom plate, strikes thestop-lever H, Fig. 3, thereby stopping the gate from moving either way.(Position of gate, Fig. 2.)

press trap D, and release trap D. At the plate, thereby unlocking thegate, and allowing the person to move on, or swing the gate and passout. At the same time cam h on circular plate 0 depresses or lifts oneend of tilt-lever '1, thereby rocking the punch-level L, Fig. 4:, farenough to prick or punch a hole in a paper filter, thereby recordingingress. The egress of a passenger is recorded in like manner; but I donot consider the On the passenger getting thus far it compels him toder. g'stering-o-am ILtO he so essential an element, f r I might use thetreading-pieces DD for that purpose.

It is proper here to notice the differencebetween this invention andother registeringgates. In thema person passing through quick wouldcause the gate to register more than once, or leave it so that a personwould have to stop and turn the gate before he could enter. To obviatethis it requires a man to take charge. In mine this could not happen,for it makes no difference with how much force the gate swings, it looksin passing through, and always stops in position for another to enter,therefore registering but once. Nor does it require any one to attendit. In other gates an evil-disposed person can stand and swing the'gate,thereby making a false record. In mine a person is obliged to passthrough in order to register, as it is locked at all times, except whena person is passing through, thereby securing a true record.

What I claim as new, and desire to secure by Letters Patent, is-

1. A Wicket or turnstile, A, in combination with check-plates U C andthe alternate-acting cams h, and the intermediate lever mechanism T andL, or their equivalents, constructed so as to record the ingress oregress of passengers alternately or independent of each other with anysuitable register.

2. In combination with the above, the traps or treadin g-pieces D D andlock or stop levers H H, and dogs or pawls E E, and inclines GG, ortheir equivalents, so constructed as to alternately lock the turnstileas a passenger passes through the entrance.

JAMES T. ALDRICH.

Witnesses:

H. O. ALDRICH, E. H. LOVELL.

